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I gave the lecture I've been dreading for a week now about mean, median, mode, variance, and standard deviation.
It went... okay. I fucked up one part of it, but I got corrected and went back and fixed it right away. The problem is that I do really complex statistics and the really easy stuff is just left to the computer. So I forget the specific ins and outs of calculating this stuff right off the top of my head. I did okay, I guess. It definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been.
The main problem that I'm finding is that students want very specific definitions for formulas that apply to a multitude of situations. I want to find a way to tell them that there is only the one formula, so the N could mean almost anything (whatever you're comparing).
I think I have to just leave major hints at what each variable is in terms of defining the labels within the problem when it comes to be test time.
And I just found out the sweatbox that is my classroom still has a broken AC unit. This has been okay in the past 2 weeks because the weather has been cool out. But it's supposed to heat up this weekend, which will turn that dumb classroom into an oven.Shit.
Is it too late to quit?
It went... okay. I fucked up one part of it, but I got corrected and went back and fixed it right away. The problem is that I do really complex statistics and the really easy stuff is just left to the computer. So I forget the specific ins and outs of calculating this stuff right off the top of my head. I did okay, I guess. It definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been.
The main problem that I'm finding is that students want very specific definitions for formulas that apply to a multitude of situations. I want to find a way to tell them that there is only the one formula, so the N could mean almost anything (whatever you're comparing).
I think I have to just leave major hints at what each variable is in terms of defining the labels within the problem when it comes to be test time.
And I just found out the sweatbox that is my classroom still has a broken AC unit. This has been okay in the past 2 weeks because the weather has been cool out. But it's supposed to heat up this weekend, which will turn that dumb classroom into an oven.
